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(meteorobs) Re: 2000 Quadrantids from SW Florida
Finally had a free day combined with being over a bad cold from last week,
so I can report on the Quadrantid max from SW Florida, lat 26.5N, long 81.5W.
1236 - 126 EST 536 - 626 UT 0.83hr 5 QUA 1 DCA 1 Lyncid 6 Spor
13 T LM7.3
126 - 226 EST 626 - 726 UT 1.00hr 5 QUA 4 Spor 9 Total LM7.3
226 - 326 EST 726 - 826 UT 1.00hr 8 QUA 3 Spor 11 Total LM7.3
326 - 426 EST 826 - 926 UT 1.00hr 15 QUA 4 Spor 19 Total
LM7.3
426 - 442 EST 926 - 942 UT 0.27hr 5 QUA 1 Spor 6 Total LM7.3
Quadrantids ranged from mag -1 to +5. The earth-grazing period was
prolonged, covering my first 2 hours with beautiful long lasting-medium
speed meteors. Every one of them did something interesting : slowing
noticeably at the end, changing magnitude, having nebulous envelopes, having
wakes, some just appearing as a short moving streak. The colored ones were
mostly yellow. This is NOT a "bluish" shower. One individual good at
seeing blue got his comment into general literature years ago, and there it
remains today. I had expected to see better rates early coming off the
sharp max. Overall the rates were a bit below expectations. I did lose the
last hour to increasing fog and some small cumulus clouds ; surely I would
have seen 20 Quads. It was a comfortable night in the mid-60'sF. Sporadics
weren't very active either. I faced east at an elevation of 70 degrees.
The best meteor of the night came at 115 EST (615 UT), a rather slow,
green-white -4m going 30 degrees in 3 seconds. It looked like a green Venus
sailing along. This one was tentatively a Lyncid.
Norman
Norman W. McLeod III
Staff Advisor
American Meteor Society
Fort Myers, Florida
nmcleod@peganet.com
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